{"id":661439,"date":"2021-08-19T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=661439"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:05:31","slug":"biden-denies-military-leaders-warned-him-against-quick-withdrawal-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-denies-military-leaders-warned-him-against-quick-withdrawal-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Denies Military Leaders Warned Him Against Quick Withdrawal Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-denies-military-leaders-warned-him-against-quick-withdrawal-date%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=661439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden repeatedly denied claims that military leaders warned him against withdrawing from Afghanistan in an interview with ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/white-house-messaging-afghanistan-rapid-makeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struggled to maintain<\/a> consistent messaging regarding its ongoing withdrawal and evacuation efforts in Kabul. Biden himself denied to Stephanopoulos that any of his military leaders recommended keeping 2,500 in Afghanistan long term, despite White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledging that military leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/04\/14\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-14-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommended that in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops,\u201d Stephanopoulos said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, they didn\u2019t. It was split. That\u2013That wasn\u2019t true. That wasn\u2019t true,\u201d Biden responded. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/seven-killed-kabul-airport-chaos-ensues-evacuation-flights-suspended-resumed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: 7 Killed In Kabul Airport As Chaos Ensues. Flights Suspended, Then Restarted)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7263769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7263769\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7263769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693.jpg\" alt=\"Taliban fighters stand on an American Humvee in Afghanistan last week. (AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693.jpg 2208w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693-280x120.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693-768x329-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693-1536x658-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234646965-scaled-e1629326999693-2048x878-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2208px) 100vw, 2208px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7263769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Taliban fighters stand on an American Humvee in Afghanistan last week. (AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t tell you that they wanted troops to stay?\u201d Stephanopoulos pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Not at \u2014 not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops <em>(sic)<\/em>. They didn\u2019t argue against that,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo no one told \u2014 your military advisors did not tell you, \u2018No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It\u2019s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that\u2019?\u201d Stephanopoulos asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. No one said that to me that I can recall,\u201d Biden said. \u201cLook, George, the reason why it\u2019s been stable for a year is because the last president said, \u2018We\u2019re leaving. And here\u2019s the deal I wanna make with you, Taliban. We\u2019re agreeing to leave if you agree not to attack us between now and the time we leave on May the 1st.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s interview with Stephanopoulos was his first press availability since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan began to unravel around Aug. 14-15. While he gave two speeches earlier in the week, he left each without taking questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also vowed in the interview that U.S. troops <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/joe-biden-afghanistan-taliban-abc-interview-kabul-evacuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would remain in Afghanistan<\/a> until every U.S. citizen has been evacuated, a commitment Psaki and national security adviser Jake Sullivan had shied away from. The original deadline for a full withdrawal is Aug. 31, but Biden confirmed troops could stay beyond that point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there are American citizens left, we\u2019re going to stay until we get them all out,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1428110467986182144?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do everything in our power to get all Americans out and all our allies out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration estimates that there are 10,000-15,000 U.S. citizens still in Afghanistan. It is unclear how any citizens outside Kabul will make it to the airport, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has said the U.S. does not have the \u201ccapacity\u201d to provide safe transit to the airport for Americans already in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden repeatedly denied claims that military leaders warned him against withdrawing from Afghanistan in an interview with ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos on Thursday.The Biden administration has struggled to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}